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Thank you all so much for the
support and encouragement that you have provided to me and Shae since
my injury in the Steelers game. You are truly the best fans in
the NFL and I am sorry that this season ended earlier than we all would
have liked. Rest assured, however, that the entire team is going
to be working hard this off-season to improve and we will be a better
team next year.

In terms of my injury, I will
be completely ready for the 2006 NFL season and am anxious to get back
out on the field with my teammates. I had surgery in Houston and
am doing my rehab in Orange County, California. This is going
to be a long, grueling process, but knowing that you all will be waiting
for me at the Jungle provides me with great inspiration. In the
meantime, hopefully we can resign Jon Kitna, a fantastic quarterback
and person, who will expertly guide our offense during the off-season.

As you all know, I signed a
long-term deal with the Bengals shortly before my injury. I am
very grateful to the Brown family and the Bengals organization for showing
their faith in me as the team’s quarterback and leader. One
of the reasons that I signed a long-term deal is because Shae and I
love Cincinnati both in terms of its team and community. Thanks
to everyone for making us feel so welcome and we look forward to coming
back to Cincinnati once the weather warms up a little bit!

I also want to give a quick
thank you to Trey Selman at Selman Chevrolet for providing me with such
an awesome car, John Unzicker from the Northern Illinois Flight Center
for allowing me to fly in comfort, and Standards of Excellence for their
great grill that we will be using often in the upcoming months.

Keep the postings coming as
I really enjoy reading them during my downtime back here in Cali.

Thank
you for visiting and posting messages on my website. This is a great
way to interact with the fans during this exciting season and I will
keep the blogs coming. In regard to one comment posted by Shamrock
11, I will put a picture of Homer on the website so everyone can see
what an awesome dog he is.

I
had a great bye week, getting plenty of rest while enjoying some time
with my wife, friends, and family. Shae and I traveled to New York
where we had some fun with Kevin Walters and Chris Perry. My first
introduction to the Big Apple was when I went there for the Heisman
Trophy and then the NFL Draft. The latter was my first official day
as a Bengal so it was cool going back there with my Bengal teammates
now. There is no doubt that New York operates at a little different
pace than Southern California and Cincinnati.

I
also got to go back to Orange County where I played a round of golf
at Torrey Pines. I have wanted to play there for a long time and we
had a great day on a beautiful course. I was a little rusty and shot
an 85, but that was good enough for a couple of skins! I also had
the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Steve Young. We both have
the same agent – Dave Dunn of Athletes First – so we met at their
offices before going to a field to talk football for a couple of
hours. It was an honor to spend time with a Hall-of-Fame quarterback
who is also so active in the community and with charities.

After
California, I went to El Paso to see my brother Jordan play. That
was also a great experience as UTEP stomped Texas Southern and Jordan
became the all-time career passing leader with 6,625 passing yards.
As a result of the win, UTEP is ranked in the top 25 again and they
appear headed towards a good bowl game. I love that when I am in El
Paso, people simply refer to me as Jordan Palmer’s older brother.
That is awesome as he has worked so hard and truly deserves all of
his success. I am fired up for him, Coach Price, and all of his
teammates.

The
bye week is over and we have the Colts coming to town this weekend.
It is great to be playing at home again in front of you crazy fans
and we are counting on you to make some noise when Peyton and his
offense are on the field. They are obviously a great team, but this
is a big opportunity for our team and our city to put forth our best
effort and try to win a pretty important ballgame. I am really
looking forward to seeing and hearing all of you at the Jungle on
Sunday. I hope Amanda (who posted a nice message) and her two-year
old daughter enjoy the game as I would love to give a good birthday
present to Kevin who was also kind enough to post a message on my
site.

In
closing, a quick shout out to 1013 back at USC. I would love to
keep typing but Goose is coming to town this weekend to eat all of my
food so I have to go food shopping at Meijer.

Welcome to my website. This has been a
great year for the Bengals, but we still have a long ways to go.
There is a lot of work left to do and we need our fans every step of
the way. So please keep coming to the stadium to support our
efforts. You make a real difference on Sundays and I know teams
aren’t thrilled to play in the Jungle. Awesome.

This week we hit the road to play the
Ravens. Baltimore has a great team and a very dangerous defense.
They are very well coached and have a ton of talent. Add all this to
the fact that it is a division road game, and you know we will have a
war on our hands. It would be great to go into the bye week with a
win, but we know that we are going into a real battle. I know we
will give it everything we have.

Everything is great off the field. I
want to give a special thanks to all the Bengals fans that have
helped my wife Shaelyn and me with our charitable efforts. The
auction winners from our golf tournament watched the Green Bay game
from our suite and we are so grateful for their donations to help the
Boys & Girls Club. I also want to thank Dean Gregory at the
Montgomery Inn for hosting my friends and family there earlier this
month. We enjoyed some of the best ribs that I have ever had. Great
place and better people.

Thanks to everyone who is participating
in the Carson Palmer Pledge Program to raise money for charities back
in California and here in Cincinnati. We have a great team and our
offense is doing all we can to throw as many touchdowns as possible.
Thanks to everyone for their support. If other fans want to join the
pledge team, they can either pick up pledge cards at any of the great
Huntington Bank branches (hello Kendra!) or they can call Jessica at
Athletes First at 949-475-2222.

Finally – congratulations and good
luck to my little brother Jordan who became the

all- time leader for total offense at
UTEP this past Saturday in a win against Rice. He has a big game
this weekend against Tulsa and Home and I will be cheering for him.
Talk to you next week.